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Ray Horton

Ray Horton

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, CO-COORDINATOR OF UNDERGRADUATE LITERATURE PROGRAM

"In overlooking, denying, evading [this] complexity which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation which is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over all other claims." - James Baldwin

Education

  • Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
  • M.A., Case Western Reserve University
  • B.A., Mercyhurst University

Highlighted Publications

Book Manuscripts:

  • American Fictions Secular Faith (In Progress)
  • Bad Faith in American Fiction (In Progress)

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • Seeing in the darkness, visible:  White Supremacy and Original Sin in Marilynne RobinsonsJack. Christianity & Literature, vol. 71, no. 2, 2022, pp. 223-43.
  • Children of the Culture Wars: Secularism, Aesthetics, and Judgments of Value in Zadie Smiths On Beauty. LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, vol. 32, no. 1, 2021, pp. 41-58.
  • Is there a Context for Gilead? Reading The Handmaids Tale and Lila under the Christian Right. Christianity & Literature, vol. 69, no. 1, 2020, pp. 15-35.
  • Rituals of the ordinary: Marilynne Robinsons Aesthetics of Belief and Finitude. PMLA, vol. 132, no. 1, 2017, pp. 119-34.

Encyclopedia Entries and Bibliographies:

  • Religion and Contemporary Fiction. Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020. Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. (5,000-word entry)
  • Robinson, Marilynne. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts. Ed. Timothy Beal. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. Oxford Reference. (3,000-word entry)
  • Marilynne Robinson. Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. Oxford Bibliographies. Eds. Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. (In Progress.)

Reviews and Commentary:

  • The Praise Band to English Professor Pipeline. Post45 Contemporaries. Forthcoming in special issue titled ? edited by Christopher Douglas and Matthew Mullins. (4,000-word essay)
  • Review of Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteeth-Century United States by Justine S. Murison, Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Early American Literature. (Forthcoming).

Courses Taught

Areas of Specialization

  • American Literature
  • Literature and Religion
  • Secularization Theory
  • Contemporary Fiction

Awards and Distinctions

  • "College Teacher of the Year," Kentucky Council of Teachers of English (2023)
  • Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award, 做厙輦⑹app (2022)
  • Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), 2017
  • Adrian-Salomon Dissertation Fellowship, CWRU, 2016-17
  • College of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, CWRU, 2016
  • Dean's Fellowship, CWRU English Department, 2014-17

Leadership and Service

  • Co-Coordinator, Undergraduate Literature, 做厙輦⑹app (2018-present)
  • American Religion and Literature Society: President (2016-2019), Treasurer (2019-2022)
  • Vice President: Gender Equity Caucus (2022-Present)
  • Faculty Senator (2023-24)

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